C++ OpenGL programming..

Hello world.
I am sitting here at home doing schoolwork. I’m taking a cource called “Software design (C++)” and we have a larger programming assignment for the end-term period. We coudl choose from a set of predefined assignments. They sounded boring (you can have a look for youself), so i chose the last one where we could define our own project using some framework.

So i decided to make a game for one-year-olds. Sometimes when I am using the computer Emma comes and wants to “punch” the keyboard [You can't believe how many keyboard shortcuts I have learned that way, last time she managed to flip the screen upsidedown (it was on a pc with win xp) and I had to spend several minutes trying to flip it back wile tilting my head upsidedown].

Well I thougt, why not make a program that she can use, and is “fun” and i wont be worried that she accidentally types someting like “sudo rm -rf /”. It would learn a child to use “friendly” keys, like the letters, space and enter, and would override all system commands like shutdown etc. So when you press friendly keys “fun” stuff happen. I am working now on bouncing 3D cubes with pictures on them, they would emerge if some nice key is pressed.

Mother-child group

Hi.
On tuesdays Eva (my whife) and Emma (my 1 year old daughter) usually goes to a mother-child group at a church here in Helsinki. Today I went there with Emma instead because Eva had school.

I was the only father there. Eva says that often there are some fathers, but this time I was the only one. But there was one i knew, one of Evas friends so I was not entirely “alone” there. Emma knew the others so she was ok. And i am not people shy so i managed to melt in.

It was fun. We sat in a ring with the mothers and children and sang childrens songs. There were lots of toys in the middle for the children to play with. Basically, the parents sat and sang, while their children did what they did, some played somewhere while others sat in their parents lap.

If I had any John Wayne image in me I had to let it go. Because you can’t be sitting in a ring singing childrens songs all John Wayney. And it was good. I encourage all fathers to go to such a gathering with your child.